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Viewing Entry - No nightingales, no snakes (E12267) by Binchy, Maeve

Overview

No nightingales, no snakes : five BBC Radio 4 dramatised short stories

Author / Responsible party

Binchy, Maeve

Collection

Fiction

Genre

Short stories.

Topics

Short stories. Short stories -- Ireland. Women -- Ireland -- Fiction.

Restrictions

Yes

Intended Audience

Adult

Publisher

VisAbility Ltd. [Association for the Blind of WA]

Published

2016

Summary

Full cast dramatisations of five Maeve Binchy short stories, specially adapted for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
Ireland is neither cursed with snakes nor blessed with nightingale- s, and the characters in Maeve Binchy's fiction occupy the same ground - ordinary people somewhere in the middle. These five short stories feature modern Irishwomen emerging from a culture in which they knew their place into a newer, middle ground, which is a bit more hazardous but also more rewarding. No Nightingales, No Snakes stars Niamh Cusack. Other cast members include Harry Towb, Sam Dale and Kate Binchy. Stories include The Answering Machine, Decisions at Sea, The Stepson, By the Time We Get to Clifden, The Night People Came in for Something that Was No Trouble.